Flappy Bird Developer Realized the Damage His Game Has Done After EA Offered Him a Job
by
Jack · February 8, 2014
Creator of the hit game
Flappy Bird, Dong Nguyen, is taking down the game. He’s doing this because he realized how much damage his game has done to the industry after EA offered him a job.
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Dong Nguyen is not a happy man. His game
Flappy Bird was never supposed to be a hit mobile game. But it happened. The whirlwind success of
Flappy Bird and the subsequent clones that followed all reveal the dangerous world of smartphone games. And it’s too much for one man to bear.
An employee who works for EA, who wishes to remain anonymous, told us that Nguyen was extremely upset after he offered him a position at the company. According to the employee, Nguyen went on a very passionate rant about what
Flappy Bird has done to himself and to the game industry.
“He called EA a really bad game company which I think is unsubstantiated most of the time,” said the employee, “This guy then went on to say that
Flappy Bird is destroying his love for video games. I don’t see how because he’s making a lot of money off of the game. It’s the main reason we want this guy to be part of our team.”
“All we wanted to do was turn
Flappy Bird into a real money-making machine,” continued the employee, “He clearly has the knowledge on how to make a really addictive smartphone game, but we can do the hard work of adding microtransactions and time sinks. We would also love to include an in-game currency like feathers as well.”
“This guy doesn’t realize what he’s throwing away,” he explained, “His complaints about how games like this shouldn’t be the face of gaming is really disheartening to us. This could be the next
Angry Birds. Imagine children buying
Flappy Bird shirts and dolls. To be honest, I don’t think we even need to improve the game with microtransactions because it’s so popular already. I’d love to get started on licensing this IP because it sure beats putting effort into the game.”
After informing the employee of an article
accusing Nguyen of using bots to artificially inflate Flappy Bird‘s popularity, the employee then wanted to redouble his efforts on hiring him saying that Nguyen is much more of a genius than he first appeared to be.
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